I love the fun Kissing Booth inspiration photo at the Curtain Call Challenge. I created this graphic design incorporating some of the fun design elements. Papers and stickers are from the Black & White Collection by Glitz ... mwah! Layout is this week's Deconstructed Sketch.

2014 has flown by in a blink of an eye..... If you follow me on Instagram (@ivyPINK) or FB then you are all caught up with my life happenings ;) BUT for those of you who arent.... Here's a quick summary Rein & I got married in September! Horray! More pics to come in the future. If you want to ...

More fun finds from blogland: Love these decorated chainlink fences ... especially the lacy one Mexican Street Corn looks amazing Smithsonian Photo Contest Finalists Tutorial for an adorable Bunny Card these Plant Pots make me smile Tutorial for fantastic Damask Clay Pendants (shown) As we're...

Tonight I'm joining my friend Amy T who is the Guest Designer at Cure for the Monday Blues with a little neon Easter fun. I had to break out the Neon Pink Ink for a quick little Easter card. Layout is this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch.

Hi everyone, Diane here sharing another mini album with the beautiful Gossamer Blue March kit. It included a great selection of papers from Chickaniddy Crafts (including their fabulous gold foil paper), Webster Pages, Gossamer Blue exclusive papers, My Mind's Eye and more. It also featured some...

Hi there! I'm up over at the Chickaniddy Blog sharing my very first post! One of the things that first grabbed me about the Date Night collection, was how fresh and trendy the colors are! Here, I started with my very favorite Date Night patterned paper and then layered on some coordinating...

Today is going to be special! A group of designers that are EAD Designs fans decided to inspire each other to use our goodies! For those of you that don't remember, EAD Designs created vinyl stickers and rub-ons ... awesome products but the company closed up shop over a year ago. What ...

This week's Freshly Made Sketch was a quick & easy layout to help re-stock my sympathy card stash. I also incorporated the colors from The Card Concept using a Clean & Graphic Design. Sentiment is from my often-used Hero Arts With Sympathy and the Designer Paper is Country Garden Vines fro...

The current challenge over on the CAS-ual Fridays blog is called "Shades of Gray" or grey over here in the UK. :) Well I am loving all things grey at the moment, especially when teamed with aqua or peachy shades - or both! Here's the card I made with some left-over stamped roses, loving that Co...

My favorite line of Stamps at Crafter's Companion are from the Stamp-It Australia Line ... and the three new stamp sets they will be releasing on Thursday are no exception. This line is called Dreamer ... and they are dreamy. This card is made with a single stamp from the set called Take Flight...

Hey there! Happy Friday and welcome to the final day of Card Creations week with Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking magazine. This special issue (in its 12th volume!) is just one of my favorite things ever. If there were a Kalyn's Favorite Things (like Oprah, of course), this issue would be one of them...

Hi everyone, Diane here! I'm so excited to be sharing my first Chickaniddy project made with the Date Night Collection with you today. The patterns in the Date Night Collection are so beautiful that I wanted to incorporate several onto my layout. I did this by creating a cut file with sev...

Hello Simple Stories fans, Layle here with you today :) I'm excited to introduce you to our March guest designer, Ashley Horton - Here's a little bit about Ashley - Hi! My name is Ashley Horton and I live in the Southern US with my husband Tyler and our three children. I started scrapbooking...

.[MFT DT]. I am so excited to finally announce that I have been added to the My Favorite Things design team! It is always a joy to be able to design for a company that I love. This will also be perfect for me to keep on-top of updating this blog! It will be exciting having new products to sh...

Happy Seize the Sketch day! Today's Sketch hostess is the fabulous Cathie Santie, and her sketch is below. Today I decided to ink up my Paper Crane set from Reverse Confetti, LOVE this set! I have to say I am LOVING the way this card turned out... I'm thinking it's perfect for a friend who'...

today i have a couple of cards to share that i created with the studio calico march card kit add on water cooler. the flower stem & sentiment are both part of the stamp set in the water cooler add on. the pink button i used for the flower comes as part of the office hours card kit & the green...

This card is made using one of the *rejects* from yesterdays watercoloring experiment. I started by stamping Hero Arts Vertical Arrows in Versamark and clear embossed before painting with Fireworks Sprays. Unfortunately, the stamp had too much embossing to get a true *watercolor* feel, but th...

The talented Virginia Lu has started a new Inspiration Challenge called Virginia's View ... and the first theme is Watercoloring with these fabulous inspiration photos. I loved those emboss resist thank you cards, especially the colors at the top right ... so I decided to try *watercoloring* w...

When I saw the Shades of Gray Challenge at CAS-ual Fridays, I knew it was the perfect opportunity to ink-up my new Too Hip stamps from the Sweet Stamp Shop. I stamped my Hip little Hippo (I'm guessing his name is Huey) on light gray textured card stock and cut him out. He was then attached to...

Happy Sunday, guys! Are you celebrating Mardi Gras? In Bolivia, "Carnaval" is such a big and colorful thing! And the best is that we get two festive days. Which means a bit more crafting time. Which means I have a card ;) Have you heard the news at CAS-ual Fridays challenge? There's an amazing ...

Welcome to the new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge! Peachy Keen Stamps is the sponsor for Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Perfectly Peach! The LEAD of the challenge will receive a gift certificate to spend at the Peachy Keen store. ... this is what I came up with: ... ...

Congrats to the winner of an assortment of Bits, Kerry A: Ashley Horton (Blog: Ashley Horton | Instagram: @ashleyhorton75# | Pinterest: @ahorton | Twitter: @ashleymh1675) has a final pair of layouts to wrap up Bits Week! Supplies: On the Edge (366043) - Cut & Paste, RiIght Now (36608...

I loved the sketch for this week's Fusion Challenge ... I'm a sucker for curved edges. I also loved the color palette of the inspiration board, so I created a Fusion Card Design. The elements I was drawn to included the tea cups, striped yellow bag, and lace, so I incorporated all of them int...

Hey there! Welcome to the Hero Arts + Basic Grey blog hop. If you're following along with the hop, you may have arrived here from Kelly Rasmussen's blog. If at any time you get a little lost, you can always visit the Hero Arts blog to find a list of all of the participants. Today, we'r...

~ ~ Hello, there! It's time for another new release from A Day For Daisies. You know it's getting close to March and thus St. Patrick's Day, so let's get a head start, shall we? This new collection is all about Pixies and beautiful ladies and Clovers! It's called Lucky Clovers. And we're st...